Flickr and Creative Commons
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Share Alike means: You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.
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Flickr and Creative Commons
Search Flickr for images available under Creative Commons license. The creator of these images have chosen to allow others to use their images within certain requirements, or license"types."
- Attribution means: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if they give you credit.
- Noncommercial means: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work - and derivative works based upon it - but for noncommercial purposes only.
- No Derivative Works means: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.
- Share Alike means: You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.
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